Knock, Knock, Knock…

CHINESE ASTRONAUT HEARD STRANGE, UNEXPLAINED KNOCKING SOUNDS ON HIS SHIP WHILE IN SPACE

While governments across the earth spend billions of dollars every year on space travel, a thought occurred to us here at Dispatches from the Asylum that maybe, even just a small percentage of those billions could be better spent on life here, especially for those who, for whatever reasons, have difficulty getting through life – you know, those less fortunate…the poor, the mentally ill, the homeless.
Just the NASA budget alone for fiscal year 2016 is $18.5 Billion. To get a better handle on that figure, it equates to about $50 Million every day of the year. A lot of cash for taking pictures and watching red dust on Mars. Far be it from us to advise the US Government how to spend the money they take from us each year, but it would seem the decent and compassionate thing to do – get life on Earth as groovy for EVERYONE here before spending $50 million each day on space expeditions for the select few who rock n’ roll through the universe.

Nevertheless, wanting to assist these baffled Chinese astronauts, Dispatches from the Asylum’s Russian Correspondent and Comrade in Space, Yesh’ Moye Der’mooffer, offers up the following possibilities on that perplexing knock, knock, knock: